The Holocaust.In 1933, The Jewish population of Europe stood at over 9 million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during WW ll. By 1945 the Germans (Adolf Hitler) and their collaborators killed nearly 2/3 Jews as part of the "Final Solution" the Nazi policy to murder European Jews. Holocaust is the Greek word meaning "sacrifice and fire". People were treated like utter dirt and disgust, nearly half of the Jewish population decreased little by little. Thousands of families dead, without water, food, a roof over there heads etc. They were also sent to concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
The Holocaust. In 1933, The Jewish population of Europe stood at over 9 million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during WW ll. By 1945 the Germans (Adolf Hitler) and their collaborators killed nearly 2/3 Jews as part of the "Final Solution" the Nazi policy to murder European Jews. Holocaust is the Greek word meaning "sacrifice and fire". People were treated like utter dirt and disgust, nearly half of the Jewish population decreased little by little. Thousands of families dead, without water, food, a roof over there heads etc. They were also sent to concentration camps such as Auschwitz.